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...rise of rock video and MTV plays perfectly into Bowie's plans, as well as his mystique. Eno's new ways of listening to music in 1976 are by 1983 new ways of watching it. No one looks better on rock video, or makes better tapes. Like some stalwart stepchild of Roeg and Oshima, Bowie works hard on his video outings. He sketches out each shot, consults with the director on everything before stepping in front of the camera. The results, startling and often funny, are more than musical presentations. They are essential refractions of the songs. Concert personas...
...state justice department in 1980, was fired by the Governor last April 14. Shortly thereafter, his anticorruption investigative unit, known as the God Squad, was disbanded. The sacking was prompted, according to Brown, by a Welch probe in the Governor's Florida vacation home: God Squad members had tape-recorded a conversation between a state official and a state contractor in 1981. Brown's office claimed that this eavesdropping violated the Governor's "personal policies...
With its heady discussions in the music tent, on flowery meadows, along mountain walks, on riverside picnics and in the bar of the Jerome Hotel, the conference has become an institution, a sort of Academy. Students and young practitioners come with their cameras and tape recorders, spouses and babies; besides sitting at the feet of such design luminaries as Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Niels Diffrient, Milton Glaser and George Nelson, they turn the Academy into a happening, flying kites, making music of all kinds and building weird experimental structures. At an altitude of 8,000 ft., some of the proceedings...
Since the early 1970s, law-enforcement officers have used video cameras to tape drunk-driving suspects, for crowd surveillance and to record "sting" operations. (By far the most famous use: the Abscam investigations that led to the convictions of former New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams and six Congressmen...
...Louis police department, one of the video pioneers, has employed the tape method on crimes ranging from burglary to murder. Says homicide division Lieut. William Wilson: "When defense lawyers see the tape, they usually tell their clients, 'Take whatever they'll give...